Golden Shores Loyalty Parade.

On April 25, Linda and I and several other Havasu 4 Wheelers participated in the Annual Golden Shore Loyalty Parade. This parade is sponsored by the VFW in Golden Shores Az. The town is a very old Route 66 town and it appears that time hasn't really changed it all that much.

There were 6 jeeps in attendance from H4W. I was elected to lead the parade, which was only .46 miles long! The main street in Golden Shores was lined with locals of all ages. We waved and were offered water from folks along the parade route. Everyone from Golden Shores thanked us for our participation. It was quite an experience. When it was over (keep in mind that the actual parade only lasted about 10 - 15 minutes), the rest of the 4 Wheelers headed over to Topock Marina to a restaurant that is only open on the weekends. Its kind of a dumpy place, but I'm told that they have fantastic food.

Linda and I took the opportunity to leave the group and head out for a day of Geocaching. We ended the day getting another 11 finds. We did have a few didn't finds along the way. We also found a great place for our experimental campout. It was off Route 66 and close to an abandoned mine. More on this later.

Enjoy the pictures.

We've gone green!

Well, now the blog page is green.
This should help.

Happy Easter

Well, it might be a little late, but Linda and I hope that everyone had a wonderful Easter. We certainly did. We were out in the Jeep doing some geocaching and had a great Easter dinner at Red Robin. All in all, it was a pretty good day.

We'll be doing the Relay for Life walk later this week, so keep tuned and I'll post some photos from that as well.
-Tom

Driving the Grand Canyon

On Saturday, March 21, the Fulmer's and the McGowan's took to the road and headed for the Grand Canyon. Yes, we drove to the bottom of the Grand Canyon!

We started out towards Kingman and fueled up there. We headed out Route 66 towards Peach Springs to start the dirt portion of our journey. It was a bit windy and overcast when we left. By the time we got to the Hualapai Indian Lodge in Peach Springs, it had gotten a bit chilly. Our thanks to Craig & Karen for springing for the permit to drive down the canyon!

We began our 19 mile descent into the Grand Canyon. About 8 miles in, we decided to air down as the road was a bit uncomfortable (washboard effect). After airing down, it was a much more pleasant drive the rest of the way. We did manage to see a burro, who was not afraid of us at all, and came right up to have a few pretzels, which were fed to our burro buddy by Linda. we continued down into the canyon. the last mile or so, we crossed several streams with very clear water. Once we made it to the bottom, we dismounted the Jeeps and took in the awesome sight of the Canyon and the Colorado River. the water was pretty murky and brown. Looking to the North, the water was fairly calm. Looking South is where the rapids begin. You'll see some of the white water rafts that are used for the rafting tours. They are pretty big and will hold 10-12 people.

We ate our lunch at the bottom and took many pictures. It had begun to really warm up and clear up. There were several groups at the bottom admiring the views and looking around.

We left after about 2 hours at the bottom, and began the long climb out of the canyon.

We had a great time with Craig & Karen, as usual. We did some caching on the way home, so it was a great day all around. We can't wait to go again!

On The Lake With the McGowans

On Friday, March 20- we went out on Lake Havasu with our friends, Craig & Karen McGowan. We took out their small boat (about the size of a small fishing boat) with a 15 horsepower motor on it, and headed down the Bill Williams River. We had a blast! We just putted along enjoying the scenery. We went around Blue Heron Island and saw many Blue Herons nesting. From what we could tell, the nests were pretty full. Craig & Karen were in their boat, as it will only hold the two of them. We went about 2 miles down the Bill Williams and found a great shady place to eat our lunch. On the boats of course.

When we were done, we headed up the river toward Lake Havasu and opened up the engines. According to Linda's GPS, we were traveling at a blazing 13.5 MPH!! Whoa!

We went over by Parker Dam and then to the intake tubes, about a mile or two up from where we launched.

After another trip around Blue Heron Island, we decided to call it a day. We celebrated our sea-faring adventure with dinner at Schlotzky's Deli, as it was $2 pizza Friday.
Our Thanks to Craig & Karen for the use of their boat. We really did have a fun time.

Geocache Bash at Cattail Cove

WOW!!! It's been a month since the Geocache Bash at Cattail Cove. Boy, I didn't realize it had been that long. I know I should have put up the pictures, but i have had issues with my computer. So . . . .

The event was a success. There were approximately 160 people in attendance. Some new to Geocaching, and some not. We had a lot of the local cachers come to help out with the event. They took groups out to help them and answer any questions that they had about Geocaching.

A special thanks to all who got involved. We learned quite a bit with this event, and next year (we've already been asked to put it on again), we'll do things a bit different. We also had quite a few of the locals say that they will definately help next year.

It's been a while . . .

Its been a while since I posted to the blog.

I have had a few issues with my PC, and had a hard time basically doing anything! BUMMER!

I had spent so much time trying to fix my PC that I didn't even do anything on my laptop.

Oh well, i'll be trying to catch up in the next few days or so.

Tom

Yuma Geocache Event #6

Rovey's Needle Valentines Day Jeep Run

Well, today was the first jeep run of the New Year for us.  We had signed up for a couple before this, but things always kept coming up and we’d have to cancel.  Well, we were determined to make this run, and it was really fun. 

We started out with 4 other jeeps.  There was a limit of 5 for this trip as it is pretty tight area for any more than that.  We left at 10:00 am and headed for the needle.  The needle is a really high rock mountain with a hole (the eye of the needle) in it.  Once you get there, you have to climb about another 100 feet or so.  Being Jeeps, we decided to take the hardest way to the needle.  And, since our Jeep is stock, I had some concerns, especially with the rocks that we had to climb over.  Well, with good spotting, I only got kind of stuck once, and got out, made an adjustment to the path I took and made it just fine.  The rest of the pack have lifted jeeps with lockers and had no problems.  They were all really great helping us get thru. 

We trudged on and made it to the needle.  Climbed up to the “eye”, and went thru.  Once thru, we hiked down the other side.  We made our way back to the jeeps and went back to the highway.  It was a great run and everyone made it thru just fine.  

Once the run was over, we all decided to go to Casa Bonita for a great Mexican Lunch.  That was good too.  After that, it was back home for a nap. 

All in all, it was a fun Valentines Day.    

Coming down from the Needle

Tom coming thru the "Eye"

I thought this was funny

No, Really. I thought this funny

Super Bowl

Its a shame that the Arizona Cardinal didn't win the Super Bowl.  They played very hard and came closer than everyone expected to winning.

Kudos to the Cardinals for their efforts.

And, to be honest, the commercials really werent that good this year.  I am glad that e-Trade brought the baby back to do more commercials.  They are really very funny.

Quartzsite

Linda and I went to Quartzsite AZ this past Saturday to go to "Quartzfest 2009".  This was supposed to be a Ham fest (Amateur Radio, not the meat).  We got there and all that was there were a couple of tables set up in front of a few RV's.  Quite a bust, and not what I expected.  Oh well, we spent the rest of the day geocaching.  Lets see, i climbed up a mountain (literally).  Too bad I didn't have a camera to take a picture from there.  It was RV's for as far as the eye could see.

We did manage to get about 12 caches, so it was a good day for caching.  And any day is a good day for caching.  I'll post some photos here and create a slide show and post it as well.

-Tom

Facebook

Oh My God!  Yet another thing to waste time with!!!

No, really.  Its not that bad and I guess that it can be fun.  It does appear that you have to type an awful lot to communicate with someone.  

Both Linda and Tom have facebook pages, or places (whatever you call it).  So, if you're inclined, stop on by our facebook things and leave us a message.  As opposed to leaving us a message or comment here, or at one of the multiple email pages that each of us have, both together or individually. AAARRRGGGHHH !!!

Really, I'm just ranting a bit.  This facebook thing could be fun.  I'll try it and see.

-Tom

Palm Springs Geocaching Trip - In Pictures

Here are all of the pictures from the Palm Springs Geocaching Trip. Click on the picture to make it bigger.

Palm Springs GeocachingTrip

On January 2, 2009 we went to Palm Springs to attend the GeoRally III with our friends Linda and Ernie (zacoolkatz).  We cached all the way to PS traveling down Hwy. 62 thru Desert Center.  

We arrived in Palm Springs early, so we helped set up with Bryon and his girlfriend, who were putting on the rally.  

It was a different type of geocaching event, and it was really fun.  It only lasted about 2 hours.  We were lucky and found a "time stamp" and returned victorious.  Unfortunately, we were the last ones in that found a "time stamp", but hey, we finished just the same.

We spent the rest of the weekend caching with Linda and Ernie.  Saturday we found several movie star caches and even the "Walk of Thighs" at the nudest condos (no, no one was seen nude.  Just as well, since it was very cold).

We attended a meet and greet Saturday morning at 7:00 am.  We did some caching and met some really great cachers as well.  Saturday evening, we attended another meet and greet at a pizza parlor.  Our friends Trizumi, Black Cat and her daughter cute kitty were there from Phoenix.

We returned home on Sunday afternoon.  We found 71 caches during that trip, with a high of 31 finds on Saturday.

That's a new record for us!

-Tom

Our FIRST blog

This is my first post. Wow! Is this exciting!
No really, I thought that Linda and I would use this as a place to keep up with our crazy schedule and also post a few photos, and have some fun. Since Linda and I both will be submitting items, we will sign the bottom of each of our posts. Have fun and enjoy.
-Tom